Shmegalamonga: quests

One of the big three networks, my memory screams CBS, but it could've been any of 'em, had a special adult cartoons special, and this was like, between 1980 to 1982, because we didn't have cable yet.

It was on at like 9:00 so kids would be in bed, it was an anthology of shorts, and I only caught the last one.

It was about a tiny little boy standing on the rim of a giant toilet, and he falls in, and gets flushed.

Yeah, that was about the sophistication level of these "adult", cartoons.

They trumpeted the thing for the whole week prior, and I could SWEAR the thing was called "The Comic Strip".

I've looked for it under that name with Google, and IMDB, and nothing.

Tried key words, tried finding just the toilet cartoon, everything I can think of.

Zilch.

Early TV is kind of in a netherworld.

If it wasn't a hit that stood the test of time, or connected to a big star, it's lost.

They could have just burned the thing.

I dunno.

I mean, look at "Twice Upon A Time".

If a whole feature length film produced by George-fucking-Lucas can fall down the memory hole, nothing is safe.

No one else remembers it, people think I'm crazy.

But, they were like that about all the other things I've since found, so fuck y'all.

Anyway, that's it, this is the last thing.

I could live without it, but....I'd really like to know what it was too.

I didn't imagine it.

So, that's it, unless I find that cartoon, that's the end of all of these.

Bubye!!

I fucking found it!!!!!!

It wasn't comic strip; it was "Jokebook". I was in the ballpark.

It was 1982.

It was Hanna Barbera.

It lasted 3 episodes. 7 were produced; 4 are lost.

The kid-in-the-toilet short is called "Jerome".

Youtube address for the whole epsiode.

Time index for "Jerome" = 16:33

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Happy 80th birthday, Batman! (MM #140)

Title says it all.
Let's get to it.

All the Batman stuff since last time...

Damned good run, Bats!
See you for the next 80!

Previously with MM-

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Pumpkin spice season: Part 2.5. (MC #7.5)

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention....

I said here...

Maybe I should grab a bag of those pumpkin Werther's to take my taste-buds down memory lane.
Hmmm...

I did it, I had them for a movie snack to go with "IT: Chapter Two".

They're scrumptious, decadent, and crack.
They're even better than you imagine.
They also have a caramel apple flavor I have to try.

Did they take me down memory lane?
Everything fucking takes me down memory lane, my brain is like Doctor Manhattan.

But yeah, it felt like completing a quest.
Combined with re-watching Dr. Giggles, and Gate II, that is.

So, that's all done.

Previously-

Monday, September 2, 2019

A nostalgia two-fer. (MM #134)

Two early 90's flicks that popped into my memory....

In "Pumpkin spice season: Part 2. (MC #7)", I said...

I should fire up "Doctor Giggles", for old time's sake too.
And "The Gate II", I remember her recommending that one.
I remember that one had that everything you magically wished for literally turned into a pile of shit after. That's some fun shi...uh, stuff. *smirk* Heh.

So, what the Hell, I did, and here they are....

Dr. Giggles (1992)

Previous review here.

So, did it get better with time?
Ssss...nooope.
By my outlook on it got a little better.

It's not scary enough to be straight horror, and it's not funny enough to be horror-comedy.
Although, that's probably what you'd officially have to categorize it as.

He's a Batman villain.
I snapped to the realization when he busts out of the cartoony asylum at the beginning.
He's a test-run of a crappy Batman villain before Batman finally traces his evidence trail, tracks him down, and beats the shit out of him.
It's just that the movie cuts off the Batman part.

Imagine an extra scene where Christian Bale shows up, and goes "rarr-rarr-rarr-rarr, Doctor Giggles!!", *punch*.
Then that makes it almost worth it.
Almost.

One neat bit of trivia I found out right at the start of the credits.
This was directed by Manny Coto!!
The guy who fixed "Star Trek: Enterprise"!
Not enough to save it from cancellation, but he made the fans happy.

He became show-runner in the fourth and final season, and he made a laundry list of "what would I want to see with a Classic Star Trek prequel?", and he did all of it.
He tied it into Classic Trek rather than get lost in a hedge maze of introspection trying to make it about 9/11, which is what season three was all about.

Boy, you came a long way from "Doctor Giggles", buddy.
Good on ya.

Gate II: The Trespassers (1990)

Not as good as I remembered, but still better than "Dr. Giggles".
But not by much.

I dunno where the "The Trespassers", sub-title comes from, it's not on the poster, the box, or in the credits.

Anyway, the glasses kid from the first movie is a teenager now, and he re-summons the demons, because we need a sequel, and he has to drink idiocy potion off-screen to justify it.

Best part was mentioned up top, when the magical genie wishes from the mini-demon turn into piles of shit.
The movie never deals with how they cleaned up a car sized pile of excrement in the driveway.
Just poof, it's suddenly gone.
I want a whole movie of that.
Disposing of regular household trash in the suburbs is a headache, how do you get the trash-man to carry away 2000 pounds of butt-mud sent from Hell?
That must have taken some smooth talking.

But, nope, the poop-mobile takes up less than 30 seconds of screen time.
20, tops.
Bummer.

My trivia take away from this one, is the girl who becomes glasses kid's girlfriend is the voice of Bobby Hill on "King Of The Hill".

My Easter-egg take away is that I sat through the credits, and I don't know why, but I was rewarded with an after-credits scene of the hamster who was sacrificed at the beginning of the movie climbing out of the portal to Hell resurrected. Like "look! The hamster is okay too!".
Um...yay?
If this were remade, the hamster would be the first of an Avengers team of horror movie zombie pets.
Thankfully, cinematic universes weren't a thing in the 90's.
...except for Kevin Smith movies.

Anyway, I figure I've processed the whole thing now, and I'll never have to watch this crummy movie again.
Or "Dr. Giggles".
Last time for both, I promise.

Previously on straight-to-video-

Previously with MM-

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Meedyah Morsels #38.

Parts #1-30.
Part 31. (Holidays)
Part 32. (Talisman)
Part 33. (Gunn)
Part 34. (BvTMNT)
Part 35. (Crossovers)
Part 36. (Walls)
Part 37. (90's)

Crap, I thought of another thing to fold in!
The lit reviews!
Those have been floating around in pieces for awhile now.
Time to finally get them all together.

1. Gag review of conservative books.
2. Gag review of guru books.
3. Gag review of holy books.
4. Gag review of some more conservative books.
5. Gag review of a post-9/11 fear mongering book.
6. Gag review of Left Behind.
7. Catcher In The Rye, A Confederacy Of Dunces.
8. Doctor Sleep
9. I Am Legend
10. Ghosts From Our Past
11. Tobin's Spirit Guide
12. Slash Of The Titans
13. Ectomobile Manual
14. 90's novels
15. Dune Series
16. Miss Fury (retroactive)
17. Satiristas! (retroactive)
18. Last Words (retroactive)

Hmm, y'know, while I'm at it, my comics reviews fit in as literature too.
Especially if I'm gonna chuck in Tobin's and Miss Fury.
So...

Ta daa!
Done!

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Comics that changed my life forever (Part 6).

Fuck it, let's go for broke.

Thor Annual #10 (1982)

Or, as I will now call it, "Raunchy Thor", the sequel to "Raunchy Hulk".

So, just two years after "Raunchy Hulk", my sexuality was starting to bud, and I was noticing certain things giving me a tingle, and then this comes along.

Fuck describing it, let's take a look.

Naked chick.

Naked chick and dude.
Wait, let's zoom in on the upper right panel there....

Okay, the rest could be explained as innocent and incidental, but there's no mistaking this bit.

Naked tentacle orgy before the Japanese made it a genre.
Truly, 80's Marvel was "the house of ideas".

Look, ladies, Chris Hemsworth's ass!

Anyhoo, this was before internet porn, and oogling the Sears catalog underwear section would have raised suspicion, so this is what I had to work with.
Give my 7 year old self a break, folks.

Marvel Two-In-One #100 (1983)

Another one from that magical year of 1983.
Something about 1983 was ground-zero for child warping.

Another one where descriptions won't do it justice.

It's the choking sobs that really drove it the rest of the way under my skin.
Yeesh.

Anyway, this happened in an altered timeline, so the "real", Red Skull didn't go out this way.
But, if he did, we now know he'd go out like a bitch.
*Evil smirk*

Green Lantern #162 (1983)

Exploding kid, kids!!

I know, you sick bastards want to see it.
So do I.
Muahaha!

Course, nowadays, Neil Degrasse Tyson would be tearing the science apart on that.

Captain America #345 (1988)

"Captain America?!?! What could possibly be fucked up in the book of a whitebread hero like Captain America!?!?".

Oh, just this...

Yep, Cap goes Hugo Danner on some right-winger militant asses, and stomps them into ketchup.

Now, before you totally shit your pants, that's not Steve Rogers Cap, that's his temporary replacement, John Walker.

Still...wouldn't you love to see Chris Evans acting that out anyway?
*Evil grin*

So, that's those.
I think that's all of it.
I'll probably remember more.

And, retro-link!

Monday, November 17, 2014

Comics that changed my life forever (Part 5).

This'll have to be another retro-linker....

So, I covered all the sickie books that "warped", me.

Now, I loop back to part 1 with all my firsts.

All right, in 1979, dad gave me my first comic, and it was Batman, because I was into the Adam West spinoff cartoon.

So, we continue from there...

Star Wars #23 (1979)

I'm dead certain this was my second comic ever.
My first batch of comics all connected to a show or movie.
I was a Star Wars nut, had all the figures, so, this was the obvious next step.

The Marvel run got sneered at during the Bantam novel/Dark Horse comics years...but then those got so formulaic and silly, the Marvels started looking good by comparison, and then Dark Horse reprinted them, and people saw they weren't so bad.
In fact, a lot of them were fucking great, and gave the best of Dark Horse a run for their money.

Now, with Disney owning Marvel and Star Wars, Star Wars is back under Marvel's roof again, and hardly anyone complained.

So, what's cool and uncool is arbitrary, and decided by dipshit hipsters, and you're best off liking what you like, and fuck everyone else.

Hulk #235 & #241 (1979)

And these were my first Hulks.
Naturally, because I was bonkers for the show.

Now, which one of these was exactly first is fuzzy to me.
"It's #235 you idiot!!".
Well, not necessarily.
See, back in my day, they had this thing where back-issues were packaged up in plastic bags, and put on end caps in toy departments of department stores.

So, I could've gotten #241 as the new one, and #235 after as the plastic-wrapped oldie.
In fact, I'm pretty certain #235 was in plastic regardless of when I got it.

Whichever order it was, they came within days/weeks of each other, so they're so closely tied, I'll just put them side by side.

My gut says #241 was first, but it's the kind of thing you can only really check with a time machine.

Oh, factoid, Machine-Man premiered in the "2001: A Space Odyssey", comic, so Hulk #235 is the Hulk/2001 crossover!
Talk about 70's, baby!

Action Comics #495-496 (1979)

And, these were to go with the Christopher Reeve movie.

Similar situation to the Hulks, #496 came in a baggie, and it might have even been the same baggie as #495, so I don't quite know the chronology.

Justice League Of America #162 (1979)

To go with the Superfriends cartoon.
And, you had Wonder Woman there, and I still had a crush on Linda Carter.

It was a weird one, they were fighting animals evolved into humanoids.
Kind of Superfriends vs. Dr. Moreau.

Hulk #249 (1980)

Got this one down in Florida on my first trip to Disneyworld.

It vanished when we got home; I was heartbroken.
It never left my sight unless I was asleep, so I suspect shenanigans.
Anyway, I found it again at a flea market.
Couldn't fucking believe it.
No, not that exact one, a replacement, but still.

And, what the hell, let's chase the Florida theme down the rabbit hole...

Gumby's Winter Fun Special (1988)

See here.

My grandmother brought this one up from one of her Florida trips.

Hulk #372 (1990)

And, when I went down to Florida again two years later in 1990, I grabbed this one at Flea World, a flea market literally the size of a mall.
The only one I ever saw that made Shady Daves look pathetic and puny.

Their comic section wasn't a table or booth, it was a SHOP the size of Moonshadow!

Anyway, nobody stole it on me this time.
Fuckers.

And, the end.
Now, to retro-link.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Comics that changed my life forever (Part 4).

Ahhh, shit, shoulda done this in time for Halloween.
Well...I can retro-link it, I guess...

Weird Vampire Tales #502a (1981)

Funny thing, I don't remember this actual book, what I do remember, is THIS.

Heh, heh, yeah!

Some kid brought that onto the playground, and that messed me up, and excited me at the same time.

It burnt into my mind once and for all that the adults were full of shit punishing me all the time for drawing stuff like that, if other adults out there in the real world were making a fucking living off it.

"Hey, if school is to prepare me for my job, and I can't practice my job, what is this place even for?".

Apparently, those cross-eyed dolts didn't see it that way.

Anyway, I luckily stumbled onto that image curiosity Googling, and was able to trace back all the anthology issues it was reprinted in, and "Weird Vampire Tales", was the only one in the 1980's.
Gotta be that one.

The one the kid brought to school had the cover ripped off, and the little shit wouldn't let me read the fine print shit to lock in on it to find and buy somewhere.

Man, didn't you hate it when people were like that?
Didn't you, say, want to chop their heads off?
Y'know, inspired by comics?
Cuz they do that, you know.
No one's responsible, there's no such thing as free will, it's all movies and comics.
Only writers and artists have free agency, everyone else is a blank puppet.
...I digress...

Superman #400 (1984)

One of my favorite comics ever.
An anthology by all the greatest writers/artists at the time projecting what Superman would look like in the future.
The artist lineup is right on the cover.

The fuggin' cat shredded it. B-(

I just got it back though. B-)

Creepy #146 (1985)

Contains a story where a guy uses witchcraft to body-swap his bitchy girlfriend with his cat, then proceeds to fuck the shit out of his cat-girl.
But, it all backfires when he has to feed her and change her litter.

Like "Faust", I chickened out of buying it.
Probably woulda gotten thrown away on me.

Anyway, nabbed it today. B-)

Disgusting Comics: Hambo (1987)

I got "Disgusting Comics: Fatso Fanny", but I missed out on this one.
This one contained "Butcher Block", about a kid with a block for a head, and he sheathed his little cleaver in the cleft in his head, and then would whip out the cleaver to kill people, starting with his parents.

Man, these writers knew what kids wanted to see, I tell ya.

Anyway, I can't find this, I'm damned lucky I even got the cover to confirm I didn't hallucinate the thing.

What The--?! #5 (1989)

Wolverine vs. Punisher in parody form, long before they were ever allowed to meet for real.
It's a fucking riot.

Another one shredded by a cat.
Oh, and he pooped on it too.
No, not Wembley, the cat I had at the time, Fuzz-bucket.
Bastid.

Anyway, got it back.
And the whole rest of the fuggin' series too.

POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem...

Monsters Attack #1 (1989)

Contained a story called "Weirdbeard", about a zombie lumberjack with a demon living under his beard, and in his neck.
Gory as hell.
Chickened out buying it.
Dammit.

Traced it down, anyway.
Least I know what it is.
Maybe someday...
*Shrug*

So, that's those.
If I could get "Weird Vampires Tales", "Hambo", and "Monsters Attack", my collection would feel whole, I'm sure of it.

Now, to post and retro-link this puppy.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Update-athon (Part 5, Based On A True Story)

*Smug grin*
Yep, I found a way to loophole it in after all.

I figure, if anything's a true story, it's my life, and the biographical stuff in the "flicks that messed me up as a kid", series qualify for that.

So, pasted over from my birthday post...

The lost memories saga.

Also, these!

Up next, in a crapload of days, Halloween!

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

En-Mike-lopedia: Volume 4

Another summer one.
As I said here...

I'll do another early En-Mike-lopedia of this summer's stuff in September, and that'll be it.

And as I also said there, there'll be no winter one.
This is it.

So, here we go.....

The big summer movie series (Part 2).

Crossovers updates

Stuff I watched.

Flicks I've watched (Part 27)
Flicks I've watched (Part 28)
Flicks I've watched (Part 29)
Flicks I've watched (Part 30)
Bingewatch!! (Part 31)
Bingewatch too!! (Part 32)
Oh-Em-Gee-Three!! (Addendum) (Part 33)
One more quest. (Updated!!!) (Part 34)
Acid! (Updated!!!) (Part 35)
Flicks that really messed me up as a kid. (Part 2) (Part 36)
Flicks that really messed me up as a kid. (Part 3) (Part 37)
Flicks I've watched (Part 38)
Flicks I've watched (Part 39)
Flicks I've watched (Part 40)
Flicks I've watched (Part 40.5)
Flicks I've watched (and intend to collect)

Adding to my collection.

Blog events.

Superhero flick updates.

Stuff that didn't fit into a regular category.

Tomes I've scanned into my noggin.
Literature Review #8.
Miss Fury.
"You play a good game, boy!!" (updated!!)
The shit on my walls (Part 5).
The shit on my walls (Part 6).
The shit on my walls (Part 7).
The shit on my walls (Part 8).
The shit on my walls (Part 9).
The shit on my walls (Part 10).
The shit on my walls (Part 11).
The shit on my walls (Part 12).
The shit on my walls (Part 13).
The shit on my walls (Part 14).
The shit on my walls (Part 15).
Oh-Em-Gee-Three!!
Crazy! (Updated!!!)
Comics that changed my life forever.
More comics that changed my life forever.
Comics that changed my life forever (Part 3).
Comics that changed my life forever (Part 3.5).
Still more horror(ish) doc news. (Rewind this!)
Yet more horror doc news! (Leviathan)
Yet another documentary! (Doomed!)
Yet another damned horror doc!! (Adjust your tracking)
Another superhero documentary. (The Death of Superman Lives)
The documentaries just keep coming! (Atari: Game Over)
Couple more documentaries. (Jodorowsky's Dune, Women Aren't Funny)
Shit, another documentary. (The Unbelievers)
My new quest.
My new quest (update/clarification)
The Big Romero Dead Series Review (addendum).
Robin Williams (1951-2014)
Halloween is canceled.

And, that was another crazy summer.

One for the books.

And as I said here...

There, done until next year.
Hopefully, next time, it'll be more streamlined.

I'll say, I streamlined winter's En-Mike-lopedia right out of existence!
Hopefully, next summer, I'll be writing Jade-Shade instead of any of this.
Okay, I still wanna do summer movies, but we'll see.
See you next year!

Update:

The Holidays.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Flicks I've watched (Part 40)

Part 39.

So, I got to thinking "what would be a fitting flick/set of flicks to view for this, the 40th entry"?

Ideally, it would bring the series full circle.
Also, since the pattern kept emerging within the last few, of the magic year being 1983, it/they should be from that year.
Also-also, it/they should be one/ones that got play on HBO in that year.
Finally, it/they should be one/ones I haven't seen in so long, I've damned near forgotten them, and should be obscure to find, even if they're well remembered.

Well, damned if I didn't luck-stumble into two that fit the bill for all of those.

1983, heavy HBO airplay, haven't seen 'em in over 30 years, fairly well buried in the fog of history, and loops back to my "Star Wars ripoffs", category.

Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (1983)

With Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, and Michael Ironside.
Produced by Ivan Reitman, and score by Elmer Bernstein.

A space station is blown up, we never quite find out if it's by malfunction, or saboteurs.
Three space princesses escape in a pod, land on a shithole desert planet, are kidnapped by mutants, a ragamuffin Han Solo clone goes searching for them, he picks up Molly Ringwald as his sidekick, they pick up Ernie Hudson as a third teammate, and they must overcome several annoying mini-bosses before finally facing Michael Ironside as a creation out of the mind of the creepy kid from "Toy Story".

Pretty good, for the budget.
Better than "Yor: The Hunter From The Future", by leaps and bounds, not quite as good as "Beastmaster", in the effects department, but it's a bit more fun in the character department.
Yeah, about on par with "Beastmaster", except sci-fi instead of fantasy.

It lags in the middle for a bit, but the start and finish are engrossing enough.

The Bernstein score made it feel like a live-action extra chapter of "Heavy Metal".

Molly Ringwald's character can be annoying, but she's supposed to be.
I was charmed and delighted by her, but, I still carry my crush for her from 1983 too, so...that had to be a factor.

Anyway, worth the re-watch for me.
Your mileage may vary.

Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared Syn (1983)

Okay, these two did the same trick to me as "Child Of Glass", and "Daughter Of The Mind".
They fused in my mind into one movie, so I had to see both again to peel them apart.

Similar titling conventions, the same year, almost identical dirty "Road Warrior", meets "Star Wars", look to them, and the first has a guy with metal teeth, and two claw arms, this one has a green guy with metal teeth, and one claw arm.
Oh, and both pimped being 3-D at the theaters.

Easy for them to blur.

Except, "Spacehunter", was the better flick.
Hands down.
I almost passed out on this one.

Only famous faces in it are Kelly Preston, and Richard Moll.
And Tim Thomseron I guess.

Directed by Charles "Puppetmaster", Band.
Yeah.
So, y'see...

Oh, and spoilers.
Come on, the flick is 31 years old...
The title is a lie.
Jared Syn gets away.
Were there supposed to be sequels?
Wasn't Charlie Band the eternal optimist!

Summary.
"Spacehunter", filled my heart with blood.
"Metalstorm", almost put me into a coma.

Was the x-factor Molly Ringwald?
Could very well be.
I leave it for you, dear reader, to decide.
Watch the flicks.

Now, a recap of the previous 39 chapters, like I did with "Adding to my collection (Part 20)".

The worst of the worst. (Part 1)
The worst of the worst (revisited). (Part 2)
Miserable movies. (Part 3)
More Miserable Movies (Part 4)
That's IT?!!?!? (Part 5)
Flicks that really messed me up as a kid. (Part 6)
Flicks I've watched online since last time. (Part 7)
Flicks I've watched online (Part 8).
Flicks I've watched online (Part 9).
Flicks I've watched online (Part 10).
Flicks I've watched (Part 11)
Flicks I've watched (Part 12)
Flicks I've watched (Part 13)
Flicks I've watched (Part 14)
Best of the worst of the worst. (Part 14.5)
Flicks I've watched (Part 15)
I "meh", the Jasons (addendum). (Part 16)
I REDO the Jasons! (Part 17)
I REDO the Freddys! (Part 18)
Post-Halloween update (Part 1) (Part 19)
Post-Halloween update (Part 2) (Part 20)
Post-Halloween update (Part 3) (Part 21)
Flicks I've watched (Part 22)
Flicks I've watched (Part 23)
Flicks I've watched (Part 24)
Flicks I've watched (Part 25)
Flicks I've watched (Part 26)
Flicks I've watched (Part 27)
Flicks I've watched (Part 28)
Flicks I've watched (Part 29)
Flicks I've watched (Part 30)
Bingewatch!! (Part 31)
Bingewatch too!! (Part 32)
Oh-Em-Gee-Three!! (Addendum) (Part 33)
One more quest. (Updated!!!) (Part 34)
Acid! (Updated!!!) (Part 35)
Flicks that really messed me up as a kid. (Part 2) (Part 36)
Flicks that really messed me up as a kid. (Part 3) (Part 37)
Flicks I've watched (Part 38)
Flicks I've watched (Part 39)

Hmm, and looking back over these, this whole thing started as a quest to conquer fear, and replenish my memories, and I've done both, the latter to death, so....I hope I'm actually done with these.

Next time,...hopefully, nothing!

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Happy 39th birthday to myself!

No gummi bear or Reese's cake this year.
Did have a bucket of Ben & Jerry's Hazed & Confused.

Last year, I navel gazed about how I no longer give a shit about society's opinion.
Now, I don't even give a shit that I don't give a shit.

There's no longer a speck of me left that's on the defensive, and I feel even pluckier about not taking anyone's shit.

My new philosophical mantra is, I'm not on this Earth to leave everything the same.
Totally going to incorporate that into my outlook going forward on Jade-Shade.
Got a lot of new ideas for that I'm excited about.

Oh, yeah, need to log it down somewhere, this post is as good as any...
All the weird leftover memory flickers in my head bouncing around and driving me nuts...turned out to be real, and I hunted them all down and ghostbusted the fuckers.
Quests over.
Brain de-bugged.

Next year, is the big four-oh.
And, I don't even mind. :-) Read More......

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Faust update.

First, see here, here, and here.

So, I've digested all 15 issues, and seen the movie for comparison.

My verdict on the comic-

Gory and raunchy as hell.
But, the storyline, and the philosophy underpinning it, total bullshit.
Tedious, droning, repeating, pretentious bullshit.

I've concluded that Satanists are just crypto-Catholics.
They'd despise being described that way, but...oh well, too bad.

They play around in the same bullshit mythology, they're just as homophobic and misogynistic, they believe in the same concept of sexual sin, and blindly lump it in with all the others, and given how much Catholics breed, they're actually doing just as much fucking, just Satanists swing more, and use birth control.
They both stole their ritual and iconography from Paganism.
Their decoration sense is equally gaudy and tacky.
And, they're both obsessed with showmanship.

It's just punk rock Catholicism.
Same bullshit, different costumes.

If you read the comic, you're gonna get an earful of it.
And by "earful", I mean a cement truck with a funnel at the end of the chute emptying into your head until you pop.

My verdict on the film-

As an adaptation, it's actually fucking great.
Totally captures the spirit, if not the letter of the comics.
There's a lot left out, but there's a lot you CAN leave out, because the books are padded and repetitive as fuck.

No way that should have been 15 issues.
Took the guy as long to make the thing as it took me to get Harry published.
Insane.

Anyhoo, Mònica Van Campen dead-on nails the character of Claire, right down to her poses, and hand gestures.
She was probably the best part of this thing.

It totally falls apart at the end, but, so does the comic in its own way.
All supernatural/religious stories fall part at the end, because they have nothing to say.
Their philosophical assertions aren't true.
That matters.
And it proves out in the end product.
Always does.
I just try to enjoy the ride before the crash.

Anyway, stalwart effort by Brian Yuzna.
My apologies to him.
It was a good job after all.

Final verdict of the whole multimedia entity-

Watch porn instead.
It's better for you.
Seriously.

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